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temperately, adv.|ˈtɛmpərətlɪ|
[f. temperate a. + -ly2.]
In a temperate manner or degree; moderately; in or with moderation, without excess.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxv. (Bodl. MS.), If þe heed is temperatlich greete and þe nolle of þe nekke sommedele greet. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. a iv b, Blud..is temperatlye hotte and moyste. 1542Boorde Dyetary xi. (1870) 262 Breade..must be temporatly salted. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iv. xix. (1636) 474 Venus is temperatly cold and moyst. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 91 Oh, how prettily and temperately may half a score children be maintained with almost twenty pounds per annum! 1870J. Bruce Life Gideon xvii. 316 The Lord's own quiet and kindly admonition would excite temperately the fears of Gideon.
b. With self-restraint; without violence or passion; dispassionately; chastely.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xli. 127 [He] determyned in hymselfe to answere temporatly. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. v. 31, I temprately must temper mine inuension, To pleade my right in reason not in rage. 1613Fletcher, etc. Hon. Man's Fort. i. iii, When our affections had their liberty, Our kisses met as temperatelie as The hands of sisters, or of brothers. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 32 It must be pardoned by those, who are very regularly and temperately in the wrong. 1818A. Thomson in Landreth Life & Min. iv. (1869) 168, I and other dissenting ministers firmly but temperately remonstrated against this. 1869H. Ainsworth Hilary St. Ives ii. xxiii, When you speak more temperately,..I will answer you.
c. With moderation in eating and drinking; soberly, abstemiously.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxii. 144 Þai liffe so temperately and so soberly in meet and drink. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 87 He could not..use it temperately, but either would allow us no wine at all, or at one meale drunke off a whole great bottell. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 449 The more temperately they would use it. Mod. A hot climate is not dangerous to those who live temperately. |